Notes from the Electronic Cottage 3/8/12

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

It seems as if lots of the media as well as lots of politicians are upset over the privacy policies of Google, Facebook, and other commercial web companies, and with good reason. But users have a choice about what company’s services to use. There is no choice about government so it behooves us to keep up on current and future government use of technologies
that affect out personal privacy that most politicians don’t seem to want to talk about. Here are a few.

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Healthy Options 3/7/12

Producer/Host: Rhonda Feiman
Associate Producer: Petra Hall
Engineer:Amy Browne

Topic: Restorative Justice and the relationship between the health of the community and the individual

Key Discussion Points:
a)What is Restorative Justice?
b)How does crime effect the health of the community and the individuals involved i.e. victims, offenders?
c)How do the techniques of Restorative Justice help heal victims, offenders and the community at large?

Guests:
Margaret Micolichek: Executive Director of The Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast www.rjpmidcoast.org 207-338-2742

Call In Program: no

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Camden Conference 2012 3/5/12

This program features a talk by NPR Correspondent Deborah Amos on the topic “The Facebook Revolutions: How Arab Activists Used American Technology to Change the Middle East.” She points out that well over half the population of the Middle East is under 30, and their prospects for employment are not bright. Technology may have helped the Arab Spring but it did not cause it.

What are the prospects for democracy as a result of the Arab spring?
What role did technology play?
Are we getting accurate and comprehensive news these days from the rest of the world?

HOST:
Jim Campbell

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